Poppy Field Award-winning team by Michael Morpurgo (author) and Michael Foreman (illustrator)

A new wartime classic from two legends of children’s literature! Michael Morpurgo and Michael Foreman have teamed up with the Royal British Legion to tell a new story inspired by the history of the poppy. When John McCrae wrote his famous poem “In Flanders Field” among the trenches of war-torn Belgium, neither he nor a local village girl who saves a discarded draft of it could know what enormous power that poem would have on generations to come.

Product Details

Catalogue number

553 in Setanta SCB Offer April 2024, 2763 in Schools Catalogue 2024–25 and 2560 in Education Catalogue 2023–24

Format

Paperback

ISBN

9781407198415

Date published

September 5th, 2019

Other details

80 pages

Condition

New

Available in these packs

30books
900L+ Upper Primary Pack C

eur prices

Price: €243.00

Rewards: €285.61
30copies
Poppy Field x 30
Award-winning team

eur prices

Offer price: €177.20

Rewards/RRP: €272.61
6copies
Poppy Field x 6
Award-winning team

eur prices

Offer price: €43.60

Rewards/RRP: €54.52
10books
World War One Topic Pack

eur prices

Offer price: €72.00

Rewards/RRP: €96.10

Author/Illustrator

Michael Morpurgo

Michael Morpurgo is a master storyteller, weaving captivating stories full of drama and intensity that are coming to be regarded as true classics. Exploring the most profound subjects with a light yet powerful touch, his books tell unforgettable stories in simple, direct words.

Michael Morpurgo discovered his talent for writing while working as a teacher. “We had to read the children a story every day and my lot were bored by the book I was reading. I decided I had to do something and told them the kind of story I used to tell my kids – it was like a soap opera, and they focused on it. I could see there was magic in it for them, and realised there was magic in it for me.”

Living in Devon, listening to Mozart, and working with children have provided most of the stimulae Michael needs to discover and write his stories. He spends about half his life mucking out sheds with the children, feeding sheep or milking cows; the other half he spends dreaming up and writing stories. “For me, the greater part of writing is daydreaming, dreaming the dream of my story until it hatches out – the writing down of it I always find hard. But I love finishing it, then holding the book in my hand and sharing my dream with my readers.”